Word Type

Noun

Verb

The word "principle" can be used as noun and verb.

Word Relationships

Capable Of

govern actions

Derived Terms

Anna Karenina principle Archimedes' principle BANANA principle Babinet's principle Bernoulli's principle Bridlington principle Cavalieri's principle Chicago principles Copernican principle Copernican time principle Courant minimax principle Dilbert principle Dirichlet's box principle Dirichlet's drawer principle Fermat's principle Fermat's principle of least time Fick principle Franck-Condon principle Goldilocks principle Haldane principle Hardy-Weinberg principle Heisenberg principle Heisenberg uncertainty principle Hollywood principle Huygens' principle Huygens-Fresnel principle IBM Pollyanna Principle KISS principle Kerckhoffs's principle Lagrange-d'Alembert principle Landauer's principle Le Chatelier's principle Le Châtelier's principle Liskov substitution principle Lotus principle MAYA principle Mach's principle Matthew principle Micawber principle Mitchell principle Novikov self-consistency principle Pareto principle Pauli exclusion principle Peter Parker principle Peter principle Planck's principle Q-principle R-principle Ritz's combination principle Robbins principle Rydberg-Ritz combination principle Sandford principle Scheimpflug principle Shirky principle Smurfette principle Spider-Man principle Yao's principle acceleration principle agreement in principle anthropic principle antiprinciple arm's length principle aufbau principle composite reuse principle context principle cooperative principle correspondence principle cosmological principle counterprinciple d'Alembert's principle day-year principle dependency inversion principle desert principle dormitive principle equivalence principle extractive principle first principle first principles four-eye principle handicap principle harm principle holographic principle in principle indeterminacy principle interface segregation principle life-dinner principle life/dinner principle matter of principle mediocrity principle metaprinciple non-aggression principle nonaggression principle on principle open-closed principle open/closed principle parsimony principle pigeonhole principle pleasure principle polluter pays principle precautionary principle principle of Pseudo-Scotus principle of charity principle of contradiction principle of excluded middle principle of explosion principle of indifference principle of insufficient reason principle of least action principle of least astonishment principle of least knowledge principle of least surprise principle of least time principle of legality principle of locality principle of parsimony principle of relativity principle of substitutivity principle of sufficient reason principle of verifiability principle of verification principled principlism principlist proximate principle reality principle rebus principle reciprocity principle sector principle single responsibility principle strong equivalence principle subprinciple superposition principle uncertainty principle unprinciple verifiability principle verification principle vicious circle principle

Etymologically Related To

prince

Context

physics pluralized

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

explanation generalisation generality generalization law law of nature natural law prescript rule value

Type Of (IsA)

generalization law propositional information rule value

Part Of

ethic

Related Terms

prince principal principality

Related Terms

assumption beginning belief endowment equip essence establish faculty fix fundamental guiding idea impress law of nature moral origin prince principal principality rule source tenet

Synonym Network

rationale tenet

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